Awkward Boner

A touching moment of self discovery in a public setting.

(Or was that a moment of self touching being discovered in a public setting?  Meh, whatever. Boners.)

Companion art for Linaerys's awesome story: Take me to the edge so I can fall apart




Artist blather

 
The alternate title for this comic is Fuck You Jonathan Toews, Your Face Is Stupid and I Hate You.* For reasons.

(Seriously, I am going to start a club for artists who have been traumatized by Tazer's face. I think I've found my VP and Treasurer. Together, we will get past this. It will be beautiful.)

We are not going to talk about feet, hands, Jonathan Toews's stupid face, or how long this took me to finish, because I am an ugly crier and I feel this thing has hurt me enough. (Bro fists over boners and Shawzian swagger are always welcome, though.)

Lessons learned, in no particular order:

-The secret to drawing Jonathan Toews's nose is to recognize that it can sense your fear and to prepare accordingly. I recommend having enough alcohol on hand to numb your basic stress responses before you start. That way when it still sucks, you're drunk and it doesn't matter anymore. Double win! (BTW Rogue Brewery's Double Chocolate Stout is delicious, comes in a very large bottle, and is 9.2% ABV. Just saying.)

-Andrew Shaw/Towel is my new OTP. If anyone wants to write the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy crossover, I volunteer my services as a sounding board and artist! 30 Helens** agree that I am not terrible at these things.

-I do not know how to digitally colour. This was supposed to be a seven panel comic strip about bruises and boners in the locker room. Instead, it's seven individual digital paintings about boners and bruises in the locker room, arranged on the same page with quirky framing. There has to be a better way. (If you have tips or tricks, drop me a line. Seriously. There are possible future children and medically unnecessary organs up for offer here. My only other option is trawling through hours of potentially awful YouTube tutorials /o)

-I did learn how to copy/paste and skew the decals so that I only had to draw them once. That was nice.

-The tone scraping tool in Manga Studio is groovy.

-Jonathan Toews has Tintin hair!

Et il est assez Francophone qu'il existe une chance que c'etait un choix délibéré! Either way, I want this fic too! Same offer re: idea bouncing and art

(Vive Hergé!)

-Tazer's alternate nicknames while I was drawing this were Captain Comb Over and Ratstache because I am a petty creature, fueled by caffeine and spite.

-It was surprisingly difficult to find a 2013 locker room seating diagram. Go figure.

-Hee hee, Duncan Keith.

-Someday, I will make perspective respect, fear, and obey me. Today is not that day.

-Jesus, I'm chatty.


* - I bear no actual ill will towards Jonathan Toews. I think he's really good at hockey and fun to watch. (Go 'Hawks!) He's probably also a lovely person who would never intentionally send me to the brink of despair with his face. Probably.

**Kids in the Hall? Anybody? Anybody?